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Mambo Casting is a successful and vibrant force in

commercial and theatrical production.

movies

New Media & Commercials

Music Videos

Meet the Team

Orlette Ruiz

Casting Director

Orlette holds a B.A. in film TV, radio and multimedia from UCLA. She is originally from Mexico City where she was an independent producer working in film and theater. Orlette’s work experience includes thousands of commercials, feature-length productions, and shorts, giving her thorough understanding of the needs of a campaign and the casting process. She has an enormous range of contacts in the entertainment industry with agents, talent managers, publicists and record labels with whom she has had extensive experience.

Conrad Caldwell

Casting Director

A Mexico City native, he attended the University of Texas where he earned BS in Radio, TV, and Film. Later he obtained a JD from the Abraham Lincoln School of Law. In Mexico Conrad worked as an editor and producer, for Televisa and several production companies. Conrad is also a musician and composer. He is also a language translator, simultaneous interpreter for captioned features, legal texts, and commercial copy. He has been a member of Mambo Casting since 2005.

Audio Recording

• We work with ProTools studio with industry-standard sound isolation.• We also provide expert session direction and engineering.• We specialize in TV and radio spots, corporate communications, e-learning, and Movie Trailers.

Mambo’s combined experience and creative vision in all aspects of casting makes us your best choice for SAG actors, Real People, Non-Union and Spanish Language talent in Los Angeles, or anywhere across the United States and Mexico. We have the ability to find the most engaging, fresh and original talent. We cast commercials, print, beauty, TV, film, theater, new media, voice over, live events, and special projects.

We often serve as casting consultants, helping our clients decide where the best place is to cast, and find the ideal celebrity endorsement for their projects.

Mambo Casting can conduct man-in-the street interviews to test consumer attitudes and reactions to new products or potential advertising campaigns. We work with you to elicit what consumers are thinking, and determine how best to best tap into their concerns, wishes and dreams.

We utilize our proprietary survey and research tool, to design real people campaigns that meet all of the demographic and creative requirements for any conceivable project.

CLIENTS

Experienced working every type of commercial assignment, and for productions of every type and size.

In the course of the past two and a half decades, we have helped companies of every size, and across every medium to find appropriate talent to help them tell their stories.

With more than 2,000 spots to our credit, we are devoted to finding the best talent for every job. Our commercial portfolio includes subtle comedy, improv, heavy dialogue, beauty, children, and real people.

TESTIMONIALS

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Mambo is great – I always want them to cast my jobs!

Jorge Colón

Director – Jorge Colón’s

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A collaboration with Mambo Casting guarantees quickness, efficiency and flexibility

Fernando Sariñana

Corazón Films – Corazón Films

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The most important people on set are the people in front of the camera. Mambo understands this and always provides what I need: the talent

Christopher Bean

Director – Mac Guffin Films

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We gave them no time and some fairly impossible numbers to work with, but Orlette managed to come up with some great options that both the client and director were very pleased with. Orlette comes thoroughly recommended by Spitfire Films.